I have a long list of things that need doing. I can’t quite explain it, but I think there is something that happens to me in February/March that feels VERY preparey. Its been this way for a few years now, and I think it stems from some of the medical trauma we’ve gone through. February 2021 was Bradys initial surgery, so that feels like a heavy anniversary. His seizure was late January 2024 and subsequent brain surgery was in March. Early March 2025 was when we discovered the tumours had regrown in Brady’s spine. It just kind of goes on and on. Its a very triggering time of year for me. But life still continues to move forward, as will we!! But we will whilst doing some weird panicky work around the house, just to help scratch the itch of preparing for nothing in particular. Its confusing, I know.
Anyway, I made a list, and we took a few things off of it this weekend, despite all the sickness. One thing was our nightmare of a bookshelf. Its a huge piece in our living room and is a total and complete mess, absolutely always. So yesterday during naps, a couple of us emptied the whole sucker out and sorted through every. Single. Book.
This is only a small chunk of the books 🤣
The result was SO worth it. We purged like crazy and it feels SO much better!!!
To have gone through and even taken full series away that just no one reads or is interested in. Books that are too taped up. Books that are duplicates. Anytime a kid said “Ooo I like that one!” we kept it, but anytime they had any “meh” at all, it was gone. And we organized and made sense of which series went where, which age levels went where, etc. It may very well all get mixed up again soon, but the refresh felt SO good!!!
We also gutted the fridges of old leftovers yesterday, and temporarily repaired our very broken piano bench.
Thats three things off the list! More to come!!
*snort laugh* Irony.